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Moneylife Digital Team 07 September 2026
The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to entertain a Habeas Corpus petition filed by right-wing influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj, challenging his arrest in connection with the alleged assault of the father of a Dalit student-activist during protests organised by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) at...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 September 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant the high-powered committee examining the definition and protection of the Aravalli Hills the six-month extension it had sought, directing the panel to submit its final report by November 30.   A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 September 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday sought an explanation from the Ghaziabad police commissioner regarding the nature of information sought from the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, in connection with cases registered against journalist Abhishek Upadhyay, who has reported allegations of the...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 07 September 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday took exception to frequent assault on doctors in Maharashtra and also noted that people from "same ideology" were behind such attacks, a reference to yet another instance of Shiv Sena workers assaulting doctors.   A bench comprising Justice Vikram Nath and Justice...

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Bar  and   Bench 05 September 2026
Former Delhi Mayor Farhad Suri has approached the Supreme Court alleging that a large team of Ghaziabad Police raided his Delhi residence at midnight while looking for journalist Abhishek Upadhyay, who reported about the Ram Mandir donation theft.   Suri has alleged that the police team, led...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 September 2026
The Press Club of India (PCI) and four other journalists’ organisations have condemned the alleged assault of two freelance journalists at Delhi’s Saket police station and called for punitive action against the police personnel involved, including the station house officer (SHO). DIGIPUB News...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 September 2026
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) plans to complete all its ongoing infrastructure projects by December 2028, a year ahead of the December 2029 deadline, metropolitan commissioner Dr Sanjay Mukherjee said on Thursday.   Speaking at the sixth edition of the Real...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 01 September 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed several first information reports (FIRs) registered by police in Delhi, Bihar, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Assam in connection with the recent agitation led by Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) over academic issues including paper leaks.   A Bench of Chief...

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Satyendra Wankhade (Bar  and   Bench) 31 August 2026
Advocates at the Rajasthan High Court's Jodhpur and Jaipur benches are on strike against Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, with police called in to disperse lawyers in Jaipur.   Visuals show protesting advocates raising slogans against Justice Sharma, including "Gali gali mein shor...

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Rohit Talwalkar 28 August 2026
This analysis began, as many serious historical investigations do, because I wanted to beat my children in the games we play.    I had been reading The Art of Strategy, Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff's wonderful book on game theory, and came across a simple idea about sequential...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 27 August 2026
Governments can't choose politically convenient time for elections, the Bombay High Court at Goa recently said while issued a strict timeline to complete delayed municipal elections across 11 municipal councils in the State (Nimesia Faleiro v. State of Goa & Ors.)   A division bench of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 August 2026
As Nepal battles one of its worst natural disasters in recent years, 288 Indian nationals remain uncontactable following devastating flash floods, while 21 Indians have so far been rescued, the Union ministry of external affairs (MEA) said on Thursday.   The Indian government is coordinating...

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Siddesh MS (Bar  and   Bench) 27 August 2026
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday pulled up the Bengaluru police for arresting a man two days before the date on which he was asked to appear before the cops in connection with a forgery case investigation.    The man was arrested on August 25. However, this was after the police issued a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 August 2026
At least 105 Indians are among 384 tourists reported missing after devastating flash floods swept through Nepal's Rasuwa district, bordering Tibet, on Wednesday, according to a preliminary situation update issued by the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB).   Most of the missing Indians were reportedly...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 26 August 2026
The Supreme Court recently directed all States to constitute dedicated Special Investigation Teams (SITs) to investigate suspected fraudulent motor accident insurance claims (The Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Tuni Pati & Ors.).    By way of an order passed on August 17, a bench of Justices...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 26 August 2026
Supreme Court Justice Sandeep Mehta has asked Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant to appoint a Chief Justice from another State to head the Rajasthan High Court "with immediate effect".   In letters dated August 2, August 10 and August 17 accessed by Bar & Bench, Justice Mehta has accused...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 August 2026
Nearly 25 years after Mumbai began creating resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) housing for families displaced by infrastructure projects, many of the buildings and settlements are facing extensive maintenance, financial and governance problems, according to a study by Youth for Unity and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 August 2026
The PM CARES Fund has made its financial statements for FY23-24 and FY24-25 public, with the latest disclosure raising questions about the availability of the accompanying audit report and notes, as well as a ₹324.66 crore refund received from implementing agencies. The one-page receipts and...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 24 August 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday banned all construction and development activities within 100 metres from the edge of Rajasthan's Jojari River till the conclusion of scientific determination and demarcation of the high flood line and ecological buffer zones (In Re: 2 Million Lives At Risk,...

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Dr Twinkle Sharma  and   Safi Ahsan Rizvi 24 August 2026
  In October 2017, in Mimi village in Nagaland’s Kiphire district, a few kilometres from the Myanmar border, researchers drew blood from 85 bat hunters. The Bomrr clan there has smoked bats out of the caves every October for seven generations, and the hunters are routinely scratched and...

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